Friday, May 26, 2017

White Chocolate Cake - 10 year blogiversary

Today is this blog's 10th birthday. I can't believe it has been 10 years, but it has. Despite all the changes in my life over those 10 years, this blog has been a constant.

I started off as a blog lurker 2 years before I started my own blog, and gradually I decided that I could blog too! Many of the blogs that I used to read no longer exist, and the number of blogs has skyrocketed since I started.

My plans for this blog were quite simple - to document the food that I made. That was my plan then, and it remains the same. This simple goal keeps blogging pleasurable.

I am combining my blogiversary with this month's Red Tractor recipe, which is for white chocolate cake.

Here is the calendar quote for the month, to tie in with Mother's Day:

First up, I made this white chocolate cake from the calendar recipe (top sliced off):

To make a half recipe (which is what I did), you will need:

100g chopped white chocolate

175g chopped butter

1 1/4 cups sugar

3/4 cup milk

1 cup plain flour

1/3 cup self raising flour

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius, and grease and line a 9" round cake tin.

Pu the chocolate, butter, sugar and milk into a large saucepan. Stir over low heat until smooth. Pour the batter into a large bowl and cool for 20 minutes. Whisk in the flours, vanilla and eggs. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for around 45-50 minutes, or until cooked through. Cool the cake in the tin.

It was not clear what kind of chocolate the Red Tractor recipe called for in the ganache recipe. For that reason, I used another recipe for white chocolate ganache, online here.Once the ganache had started to set up, I decorated the top of the cake with wafer flowers and butterflies and pink disco glitter.

This is a peek inside the cake. I found the cake to be quite sweet, which is not surprising considering the white chocolate. If white chocolate is your thing, this may just be the cake for you.

Congratulations - glad you are still going strong with lots of interesting baking. I am in admiration of the blog groups you join and keep up with and how much cake decorating you have grappled with and learnt over the course of your blog.

I think that quote on the calendar is what we need in this world where everything must be bigger, better and improved. Love the cake - though I think a dark chocolate ganache would suit my palate more - although then you wouldn't be able to feature the lovely decorations.

Woo hoo! Congratulations Cakelaw! That's a lot of posts with great recipes from you! This cake looks delicious. White chocolate is great and too few recipes using it. Thanks for this one and celebrate!